Editing Seguin, Texas (section)

==Description==
Seguin's economy is primarily supported by a regional hospital, as well as the Schertz-Seguin Local Government Corporation water-utility, that supplies the surrounding [[Greater San Antonio]] areas from nearby [[aquifer]]s as far as [[Gonzales County, Texas|Gonzales County]]. Several [[dam]]s in the surrounding area are governed by the main offices of the [[Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority]], headquartered in downtown Seguin.

Seguin, named in honor of [[Juan Seguín]], a [[Tejano]] [[Texian Army|Texian]] freedom fighter and early supporter of the [[Republic of Texas]], is one of the oldest towns in Texas, founded just 16 months after the [[Texas Revolution]] began. The frontier settlement was a cradle of the [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Rangers]] and home to the celebrated Captain [[John Coffee Hays|Jack Hays]], perhaps the most famous Ranger of all.<ref name="Weinert">{{cite book |last=Weinert |first=Willie Mae |title=An Authentic History of Guadalupe County |publisher=Seguin Conservation Society |year=1976 |oclc=11602964}}</ref> At this time, the Seguin area was a part of Gonzales County, the remaining portion known as present-day [[Belmont, Texas|Belmont]].<ref name="1841texasmap">{{cite web |title=Karte von Texas entworfen nach den Vermessungen, welche in den Acten der General-Land-Office der Republic liegen bis zum Jahr 1839 von Richard S. Hunt & Jesse F. Randel |url=http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/scherpf-texas-1841.jpg |publisher=University of Texas |access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name="1849texasmap">{{cite web |last1=Bädeker |first1=J. |title=Karte des Staates Texas (aufgenommen in die Union 1846.) |url=http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/badeker-tx-1849.jpg |publisher=Dorothy Sloan-Rare Books, University of Texas |access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref> The Rangers had found this was a good halfway stop between their patrol points. It had been maintained as a base camp by the Rangers since the early founding of the [[Dewitt Colony]].